Ashish Sohani approached the International Criminal Court last week, arguing that China's attempts at downplaying the contagion was "treason against humanity" Around the end of March, Mumbai-based lawyer Ashish Sohani was discussing the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus with his family over dinner.
He was irked at China’s attempts at suppressing information and downplaying the contagion in the initial months of the outbreak, something he believed was responsible for its global spread. “I told my mother, China has to compensate for the harm it has done," he recalls.
His mother, a former judge at the family court in Bandra, Mumbai, told him, “If you feel so, put it on a piece of paper and file it (in the court)." “At the time, I had no